A study was undertaken to evaluate the suitability of the SLURP hydrological model for simulating the hydrology of the Saint Esprit watershed (26 km 2) in Quebec. Climatic data and other input were made available through a monitoring program set up in the watershed from 1994 to 1998. GIS was used to store, analyze and export the watershed information into the model. The continuous semi-distributed model SLURP was calibrated using three years of data (1994--1996). Parameter calibration, except that of snowpack melt-rate, was done through an automatic optimization technique. The model was validated using graphical outputs, the Nash/Sutcliffe (R2) coefficient of performance for daily runoff, and the percent difference of predicted versus computed runoff on a monthly, seasonal and annual basis. Additionally, the evapotranspiration (ET) component of the model was compared with an ET estimated using the Baier & Robertson model (BR) calibrated for the region. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.30737 |
| Date | January 2000 |
| Creators | Romero, David R. |
| Contributors | Madramootoo, Chandra A. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001764917, proquestno: MQ64442, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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